On 2005-12-23 15:20, rajoor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Giorgos Keramidas wrote: >>On 2005-12-23 14:18, Ariane & Ron Joordens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> My FreeBSD 6.0 computer refuses to boot. It gets to the >>> screen where it pauses for 10 seconds and gives you the >>> choice of 8 boot options, and then...nothing! >>> >>> Choosing the default option shows a single line >>> "/boot/kernel/acpi.ko text= etc,..." then the next line shows >>> "|", and that's it. All the other boot options show just the >>> "|" and that's it. I have waited for up to 30 minutes, but no >>> change. The only way out is to reset the computer. >>> >>> Prior to this prblem the computer worked perfectly. FreeBSD >>> 5.4 was installed about 4 months ago, this was upgraded to >>> 6.0 about 2 months ago. Everything had been recompiled and I >>> never had any problems, until this. >>> >>> I suspect that my 2 year old son has been pressing the power >>> button repeatedly which may have caused this. >> >> Do you still have the FreeBSD install CD-ROM? You can use >> that to boot. >> >> DON'T INSTALL ANYTHING, though :) >> >> Just make sure that the CD-ROM boots fine up to the sysinstall >> menu. >> >> If that works, then there's definitely something wrong with >> the kernel or the other boot files you have on disk, and we'll >> see what can be done. > > Thanks Giorgos, > > The install cd boots just fine. So I then looked up the manual > and tried to boot from /boot/kernel.old.kernel but that doesn't > work either. > > What can we do next?
You can try using the "Live CD" CD-ROM, to boot into the live FreeBSD system and try to run fsck on the disk that's failing. The live CD-ROM is disc2.iso from the release ISO images. If you have this CD-ROM, you can boot into sysinstall and choose: Fixit => 2 CDROM/DVD You will then enter a shell that runs from the live CD-ROM, and be able to run fsck(8) on your disks :-) _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"